Coleman Hawkins Good Old Broadway NEW APO 2 x 45rpm 180 gram Audiophile #
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Coleman Hawkins ~ Good Old Broadway
Factory Sealed / Factory New
Double Record, 45rpm Set, 1 album on 2 Vinyl.
180 Gram Heavyweight vinyl Analogue Audiophile R.T.I. pressing.
#0272/1000 Limited edition from Acoustic Sounds; AcousTech Masters, Kevin Gray and Steve Hoffman.
Analogue Productions Records - Moodsville Vol. 23
Cover is Mint- to Mint.
Out of Print Remastered Album, originally released in 1962.
"Coleman Hawkins was the first important tenor saxophonist and he remains one of the greatest of all time. A consistently modern improviser whose knowledge of chords and harmonies was encyclopedic, Hawkins had a 40-year prime (1925-1965) during which he could hold his own with any competitor.
Coleman Hawkins started piano lessons when he was five, switched to cello at age seven, and two years later began on tenor. At a time when the saxophone was considered a novelty instrument, used in vaudeville and as a poor substitute for the trombone in marching bands, Hawkins sought to develop his own sound. A professional when he was 12, Hawkins was playing in a Kansas City theater pit band in 1921, when Mamie Smith hired him to play with her Jazz Hounds. Hawkins was with the blues singer until June 1923, making many records in a background role and he was occasionally heard on instrumentals. After leaving Smith, he freelanced around New York, played briefly with Wilbur Sweatman, and in August 1923 made his first recordings with Fletcher Henderson. When Henderson formed a permanent orchestra in January 1924, Hawkins was his star tenor."...
-allmusic.com
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